Lagos, Nigeria: Published by the author, and printed by Pacific Printing Works, 1958. First Edition. COMPLETE SET. Together 2 vols., 8vo. [4], 88; [4], 56 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs throughout. Original printed wrappers, stapled as issued (front cover of Part II slightly stained, toning to the text and..... More

Oxford: John Baskett, 1717. 8vo. Parallel text in French and English. Bound by John Baumgarten in London ca. 1765-1780: tree calf, covers tooled in gilt to a rococo design, with Chippendale birds, insects, grapes, flowers, columns and diaper-pattern motifs, spine with raised bands with 6 compartments tooled in gilt with..... More

Edinburgh: Assigns of Alexander Kincaid, 1787. Two works in two volumes. Large Octavo (211 x 130 mm). Collation: BIBLE: A-4A8, complete. PSALMS: A-E8, complete. Contemporary Scottish bindings: red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt to a "Chippendale" motif, smooth spines gilt; marbled endpapers, a.e.g. (in vol. 1 the front joint expertly..... More

London: [Printed in Leipzig for] The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1895. First Edition. 8vo. 421 pp. Original green cloth embossed in black and blind, gilt lettering in Persian on front cover (some foxing and age toning, minor water-staining on the edges and endpapers, endpapers with old annotations in Ottoman..... More

Madrid: 1790. Peter Marin. Small 4to. 224 pp. Bound in contemporary horsehide (?) -- on covers a flower tool has been impressed in gold to form a cross, in the outer edges a rope-work roll, at the corners the same flower tool, four raised bands on spine, in the compartments..... More

Oxford: Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, 1616. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Collation: [par.]4 2[par.]4 A-3K4 3L*4 3L-4L4 4M2 (lacking final blank leaf 4M2). Without a binder's blank at the front, and at the back a stub bearing traces of MS annotations; this was excised at the same time as the bespoke..... More

Munich: E. Stahl, 1861. First Edition. 8vo. xiv, 424 pp. Original quarter sheep (leather suffed but the binding is perfectly sound; extremities worn). Contemporary inscription on title-page: "H.D. Tuncker, Ep. Altonensis" (i.e. Altona, outside Hamburg). NOT ex-library! SCARCE TREATISE ON MARRIAGE, "ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF AMERICAN CLERGYMEN," WRITTEN BY..... More

Turin: Heirs of Colonna, 1690. Third edition. 12mo. 1 blank fol. + [6], 424 pp. (some foxing throughout, pp. 135-170 with worming in blank lower margins, rather ugly but touching only four letters). Contemporary Italian vellum, four raised bands on spine, in the second compartment the author's name and title..... More

Gutersloh, Germany: Gutersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. 308 pp. pp. Original cloth (a trifle dusty). NOT ex-library! The definitive, critical biography of Johannes Zwick (ca. 1496-1542) who with his brother Konrad, and Ambrosius and Thomas Blarer, implemented the Reformation in Constance and "deputized" other brothers in other..... More

Hartford: D.F. Robinson and H.F. Sumner; stereotyped by James Connor and William R. Cooke, 1834. 2 vols. Vol 1: [2], 3-736, [2] = 738 pp., with frontispiece and 7 plates. Vol 2: [2], 737-995, [9], 1003-1440, [3] = 711 pp., with engraved frontispiece and 5 plates. Bound in speckled calf..... More

The Hague: C. Fritsch, 1718. 8vo. xliv, 728, [2] pp. (text lightly foxed). Late 18th-century red morocco by Robert Aitken: boards elaborately gilt à la dentelle, spine elaborately gilt with raised bands, morocco label, a.e.g. (spine and extremities somewhat rubbed). Bookplate of the Washington Cathedral Library inside upper cover. Title-page..... More

New-London [CT]: Printed by Timothy Green, 1760. 16mo. [2], 118 pp. Collation: A-P4. With the Articles for the Administration of Church Discipline bound in with its own title page and the Timothy Green 1760 imprint, but the pagination and signatures continuous. Bound in contemporary American calf over thin wooden "scaleboard."..... More

San Pablito Pahuatlan in Puebla state, Mexico: 1981. Crown 8vo (18 x 14 cm). Original handmade paper wrappers with muñeco illustration on front, with manuscript title and production information, red ribbon ties. Handmade and handbound codex, folded accordion style, text in written dark brown pen on amate bark paper, original..... More